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Wooden Nickel - Now Hear This! - December 2018

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Joe Strummer
Joe Strummer 001Ignition Ltd

Featuring 32-tracks, Joe Strummer 001 is the first compilation to span Joe Strummer's career outside of The Clash collecting fan favorites from his recordings with his excellent pre-Clash pub rock group, The101ers, his (also) excellent post-clash band, The Mescaleros, his solo albums, soundtrack work, plus an album of 12 unreleased songs.

RÜFÜS DU SOL
SolaceWB

RÜFÜS DU SOL occupy the intersection of indie music and electronica. The Australian trio wrote and recorded their third album, Solace, in Venice Beach – under the spell of the California’s stark desert landscapes. "Underwater" features the boundary pushing production and soaring vocals upon which RÜFÜS DU SOL have built their name, while “No Place” offers another glimpse at the band's evolution.

Neil Young
Songs For JudyWB

Recorded during Neil Young's fabled November 1976 solo acoustic tour of the U.S., Songs for Judy includes performances of classics like "Heart of Gold," "After the Gold Rush," and "The Needle and the Damage Done," along with a number of rarer selections, including the previously unreleased "No One Seems to Know." Curated by and featuring liner notes from director Cameron Crowe and producer/photographer Joel Bernstein.

Rita Ora
Phoenix (Deluxe)WB

Released six years after her debut chart-topping album Ora, Rita Ora’s sophomore collection is aptly-titled Phoenix. "It’s been a journey!” Rita says. "I’ve just had to fight so hard for this album in so many ways!" It was worth the wait: Phoenix features “Lonely Together (with Avicii),” “Girls (ft. Cardi B, Charli XCX and Bebe Rexha),” and current single “Let You Love Me.”

Anderson. Paak
OxnardAftermath/12 Tone Music, LLC

Anderson .Paak's new album, Oxnard, is a nod to the Southern California city where Anderson grew up. Given his talent, .Paak doesn’t need a deep bench of impressive features, but Oxnard still puts ‘em to good use: His first single, “Tints,” boasts none other than Kendrick Lamar. Elsewhere, J. Cole, Pusha T, Q-Tip, Snoop Dog, and the highly underrated Kadhja Bonet come to party. Yes Lawd!!!

Daniel Romano
Finally FreeNew West Records

Finally Free is Daniel Romano's eighth album in eight years. His last record, Modern Pressure received outstandingly high acclaim – but Finally Free is a radical revelation. Writing now like an agnostic, Walt Whitman in his prime, Finally Free explores the concepts of music as a celestial being, flora as a consequential ancestor, and singing as the singularly most important output of our species.

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Jeff Tweedy
WarmdBpm Records

Though it’s not the first album under his own name, Warm is Jeff Tweedy’s first new collection of solo material. Recorded with help from some of his usual collaborators – Spencer Tweedy, Glenn Kotche and Tom Schick – Warm follows the acoustic retrospective, Together at Last (2017), and Wilco's 2016 album, Schmilco. Tweedy describes lead single "Some Birds" as, "like a lot of songs on Warm, being a confrontation between self and shadow self simultaneously feeling I'm to blame and not to blame, present and gone, and utterly confused, but determined to hold someone accountable." It’s a song that wouldn’t feel out of place on Schmilco, whereas the stabby, backwards guitar solo on “Let’s Go Rain” is pure Star Wars. You need this.

The Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) is a national level organization comprised of the best independent record stores in America. CIMS was founded in 1995 with the goal of uniting like minded independent store owners, giving them a more powerful voice in the music industry. The stores that make up CIMS are all very different, but we share the same desires – to be the heart of our communities, to super-serve our customers, to support and develop artists, and to share our love of music.

For more information about CIMS and the stores in our organization, please visit cimsmusic.com or find us through social media with the #cimsmusic hashtag. And please remember to always shop local by supporting your neighborhood record store.